WHEN: October 2011
WITH: Casey Chapman
WHY: My roommate Jesselah was able to get me a "buddy pass" (flight anywhere for barely nothing). My friend Casey had recently moved to Chicago and I had never been and had a free place to stay, so why not?
MEMORIES:
-Millennium Park and the "shiny bean."
-First time seeing someone doing "parkour." Thought it was weird then and still think it's weird now.
-Art walk in the Chicago Art District. Lots of great art in a lot of great buildings.
-Breakfast at the Bongo Room (amazing pancakes...they were pretty much like dessert).
-Tour of the Chicago Tribune Building. It was actually some special weekend when I went where they were letting the public go through some of the buildings that they usually don't; this was one of them.
-Authentic Chicago deep dish pizza
-Seeing a comedy show at Second City
-We did and saw much more than I listed; I got some pretty bad blisters from all of our walking!
View from the Ferris Wheel at Navy Pier
This guy was at this pond at Navy Pier. It was so weird - he was a grown man crawling around six inches of water hissing and catching this bone with his mouth. Highly entertaining.
Lots of cool structures/sculptures/architecture.
Marilyn Monroe statue, Casey, and Me
There was a building (can't remember the name) where there are various rocks/stones from all over the country embedded in the walls - here is some OR love (part of Fort Clatsop).
A late night listening to Jazz music at Green Mill Jazz Club.
